ACCENTURE has scrapped its global diversity and inclusion goals after an evaluation of the changing US political landscape, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Friday.
The company will start 'sunsetting' the diversity goals it set in 2017, along with career development programs for 'people of specific demographic groups,' said the memo from CEO Julie Sweet.Big tech companies Meta, Alphabet and Amazon are among a series of firms that had scrapped their diversity, equity and inclusion goals leading up to and after Republican Donald Trump's return to the US presidency.
Separately, Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday in a note to staff said the Justice Department would 'investigate, eliminate and penalize' illegal diversity programs in the private sector.Along with rolling back Accenture's DEI targets — which Sweet said would no longer be used to measure staff performance — the company will pause submitting data to external diversity benchmarking surveys, the memo said.
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